Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa

by Christopher Nelson and Christopher T. Nelson

Book Overview

Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of the past. Nelson explores the work of a circle of Okinawan storytellers, ethnographers, musicians, and dancers deeply engaged with the legacies of a brutal Japanese colonial era, the almost unimaginable devastation of the Pacific War, and a long American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822343711
• ISBN13: 9780822343714
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"